[FireBeyond]

> or is themselves compromised (less likely)

Why would you say that? More than one DOGE engineer has been linked to cyber-crime gangs. I don't think it's the biggest stretch to say they're already "morally ambiguous" and not above taking foreign money.

[orwin]

Because he read DOGE "engineers" profile, and likely either recognized himself in some of them, or knew people like them, and the likehood of self-important script kiddies having compromised hardware is close to like 60%.

Especially for those older than 16 i've noticed. You have like an inert dunning kruger effect (you start midly arrogant, your arrogance grow and grow until you trule learn some skills and your arrogance decrease, slowly.) I like my red team friends in general, but if you just graduated from script kiddy to a real job: people mostly entertain/endure you because they know you will grow out of it, but the faster you do, the better.